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madding

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?mæd??/
  • Rhymes: -æd??

Adjective

madding

  1. (archaic) Affected with madness; raging; furious.
    • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
      Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Verb

madding

  1. present participle of mad

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maden?/, [?maðe?]

Noun

madding c (singular definite maddingen, plural indefinite maddinger)

  1. fishbait

Inflection

Synonyms

  • agn

Further reading

  • madding on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

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wadding

English

Etymology 1

wad +? -ing (“material, collection”).

Noun

wadding (countable and uncountable, plural waddings)

  1. wads collectively
  2. soft, fibrous cotton or wool used to make a wad, or as a packaging material
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
      She slipped a hand into her kerchief pocket and took out the wadding and waved in reply of course without letting him and then slipped it back.
Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

wadding

  1. present participle of wad

Anagrams

  • dingwad

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